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Dreams and Good Lies

The Origins of Great Fiction

Robert Thibadeau
Nov 3 · 4 min read

As a computational cognitive scientist, which is actually a pretty rare and unliked breed, I can assert that man still does not know how the brain computes cognitively. We know the neocortext is “intermodal central” that manipulates all our symbols as subjects and predicates. We know these are organized in episodes and that all our senses, motor actions, and awareness of our own…

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Robert Thibadeau

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Carnegie Mellon University since 1979 — Cognitive Science, AI, Machine Learning, one of the founding Directors of the Robotics Institute. rht@brightplaza.com

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